Presenter: Robert L. Nibbs, Jr.

Presentation to: DHS Board

Date: December 12, 2012

The Georgia Refugee Program

Georgia Department of Human Services

Vision, Mission and Core Values Vision Stronger Families for a Stronger Georgia.

Mission Strengthen Georgia by providing Individuals and Families

access to services that promote self-sufficiency, independence, and protect Georgia's vulnerable children and adults.

Core Values • Provide access to resources that offer support and empower

Georgians and their families.

• Deliver services professionally and treat all clients with dignity and respect. Manage business operations effectively and efficiently by aligning resources across the agency.

• Promote accountability, transparency and quality in all services we deliver and programs we administer.

• Develop our employees at all levels of the agency.

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Contents

• Overview

• Georgia Refugee Data

• Formula Grant Dollars

• Discretionary Dollars

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Overview of The Georgia Refugee Program

• The Georgia Refugee Program is 100% federally funded.

• Refugees arrive in the U.S. with legal resident status and are entitled to all of the rights and responsibilities of legal residents.

• Refugees have access to and are eligible for all services that Georgians are entitled to as citizens and are held to the same eligibility guidelines.

• Refugees are entitled to receive Refugee Medical Assistance and Refugee Cash Assistance for the first 8 months of their stay in Georgia or any state. These funds are 100% reimbursed to the State.

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Newly Arrived Refugees in Georgia: Five-Year Trend

County SFY 2007 SFY 2008 SFY 2009 SFY 2010 SFY 2011

5 Year

Total

Barrow 5 5 10

Bartow 3 1 4

Bibb 3 3

Catoosa 7 7

Chatham 2 3 5

Cherokee 5 5 11 3 24

Clarke 7 2 7 5 21

Clayton 21 19 10 9 1 60

Clinch 3 3

Cobb 33 18 39 27 1 118

Colquitt 9 5 6 20

Columbia 5 1 6

Coweta 26 2 28

Dawson 4 4

DeKalb 924 1,480 2,491 2,109 1,941 8,945

Douglas 3 1 4

State Total 1,280 1,999 3,518 3,102 2,804 12,703

Source: Worldwide

Refugee

Admissions

Processing System

(WRAPS) Db

Counties without an entry means that no newly arrived refugees were

settled in that community that year. 5

Newly Arrived Refugees in Georgia: Five-Year Trend, continued

County SFY 2007 SFY 2008 SFY 2009 SFY 2010 SFY 2011 5 Year Total

Fayette 1 1 2

Floyd 2 2

Forsyth 12 12

Fulton 130 302 643 783 758 2,616

Gwinnett 132 123 232 92 39 618

Hall 2 2

Henry 3 4 7

Houston 13 13

Jackson 13 8 21

Liberty 2 2

Lowndes 8 1 9

Madison 14 12 10 4 40

Murray 1 5 7 13

Muscogee 1 2 5 8

Newton 6 9 4 19

Rockdale 4 4 2 10

Walton 3 3 4 3 13

Whitfield 4 4 21 5 34

State Total 1,280 1,999 3,518 3,102 2,804 12,703

Source: Source:

Worldwide

Refugee

Admissions

Processing

System (WRAPS)

Db

Counties without an entry means that no newly arrived refugees were

settled in that community that year. 6

Refugee Expenditure by State Fiscal Year (Statewide)

State Fiscal

Year

Expenditure

SFY07 $4.9 million

SFY08 $7.0 million

SFY09 $8.6 million

SFY10 $8.8 million

SFY11 $9.9 million

The expenditures include the

following: Refugee Cash Assistance,

Refugee Medical Assistance,

Refugee Social Service grants,

Refugee TAG grants, Refugee

School Impact grant, Refugee Cuban

Haitian Grant, and Refugee

administrative costs.

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TAG/SSG Formula Grants - $3,973,924.00 Awarded

• Employability – $1,167,131.00

• English Language Instruction - $857,676.00

• Social Adjustment - $736,800.00

• Information and Referral - $399,152.00

• Immigration Services - $315,300.00

• Refugee Youth Services - $299,325.00

• Domestic Violence Prevention - $198,540.00

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FY 2013 TAG/SSG Contract Awards

Contractor Name SSG TAG Total

Atlanta Technical College $91,063.00 $21,790.00 $112,853.00

Catholic Charities * $77,833.00 $46,142.00 $123,975.00

Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. $214,858.00 $196,538.00 $411,396.00

Georgia Piedmont Technical College $370,883.00 $373,940.00 $744,823.00

International Rescue Committee * $421,614.00 $252,186.00 $673,800.00

Lutheran Services of Georgia * $520,764.00 $260,381.00 $781,145.00

Refugee Family Services, Inc. $330,850.00 $90,450.00 $421,300.00

Refugee Resettlement & Immigration Service of

Atlanta, Inc. *

$82,004.00 $185,526.00 $267,530.00

Refugee Women’s Network, Inc. $54,333.00 $27,167.00 $81,500.00

Somali American Community Center $12,500.00 $6,250.00 $18,750.00

Tapestri, Inc. $56,700 $0 $56,700.00

World Relief, Inc. * $151,000.00 $129,152.00 $280,152.00

TOTAL $2,384,402.00 $1,589,522.00 $3,973,924.00

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Criteria for Contractor Selection

1. The Statement of Need process presented on July 31, 2012 was

followed.

2. Statement of Need sent to potentially eligible entities on August 7,

2012.

3. Proposals were received from entities on August 14, 2012.

4. August 15 and 16 – preliminary recommendations for contract

award.

5. Negotiations for contracts began upon approval from

Commissioner.

6. Contracted services began October 1, 2012.

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FY 2013 Discretionary Grant Awards

Grant Total Amount 58% Awarded Contractors

Cuban-Haitian Grant $100,000.00 $58,000.00 Catholic Charities, RRISA,

World Relief

Refugee School Impact

Grant

$560,000.000 $324,800.00 Catholic Charities, CPACS,

Clarkston Community Center,

DeKalb County School

District, Refugee Family

Services, Somali American

Community Center

Services to Older Refugees

Grant

$100,000.00 $58,000.00 Jewish Family and Career

Services

Total Discretionary

Amount

$760,000.00 $440,800.00

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Questions

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